Admittedly the most well known "web 2.0" product of the year. Facebook has been used extensively by end-users. Even internet savvy people started using the internet just for that.
Features:
- Online community networking. People are dating, gaming, collaborating and anything else that the developers come up with.
- Private Meta data repository. Even for an end user with no "friends" no photos no e-mail , searching for people has become a lot easier with this platform. In the early days if you wanted to find out information about a person you had to hack a system or pay lots of money to someone who has access (governments are excluded). This new platform is open, its free and it provides you personal photos, habits, day to day activities and other profiling data for the person you are looking for and the "friends"
- Identity theft. Identity theft has never been easier. You can disguise yourself as the president of the
Blue Men Liberation front , create a group and send them documents, photos, objects, redirect them to web pages etc...
- The value facebook has for its owners is unique. They have information for "selling" to a wide clientele.
Unfortunately I have never been able to join myself mainly to due to the fact that I am too lazy.
However I must give my congrats for the creators!!!
Like any other system which is built to gather information and track people and trends for community related reasons or for providing customized service delivery it can be (ab)used in several ways.
And dont worry google owns ME !
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